Microfinance encompasses the provision of small-scale financial services—typically loans, savings and insurance—to individuals excluded from formal banking systems, with women often targeted as ...

Managing Director, IBILE Microfinance Bank, Adegboyega Kazeem, operates within the intersect of financial exclusion, environmental concerns, energy challenges and other socio-economic, political ...

An increase in the proportion of women accessing microfinance services by just 15% could potentially reduce gender inequality, as measured by the Gender Inequality Index, by half in the average ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of tech and social progress in Asia. In developing economies such as Myanmar, microfinance is often ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will release the NationalMicrofinance Development Strategy in the second quarter of the year. The document is expected to outline modalities for devel-oping the ...